Roman Conrad PUCINSKI

(1919-2002)

PUCINSKI, Roman Conrad, a
Representative from Illinois; born in Buffalo, Erie County, N.Y.,
May 13, 1919; attended the public schools in Chicago, Ill.;
attended Northwestern University, Evanston, Ill., 1938-1941;
attended John Marshall Law School, Chicago, Ill., 1945-1949;
journalist; United States Air Force, 1940-1945; chief investigator,
Congressional Special Committee to Conduct an Investigation and
Study of the Facts, Evidence, and Circumstances of the Katyn Forest
Massacre, 1952; elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-sixth Congress
and reelected to the six succeeding Congresses (January 3,
1959-January 3, 1973); was not a candidate for reelection to the
Ninety-third Congress in 1972, but was an unsuccessful candidate
for election to the United States Senate; appointed to the National
Advisory Council on Vocational Education, 1974-1982; alderman,
Chicago, Ill., 1973-1991; died on September 25, 2002, in Chicago,
Ill.

Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present